A man who pleaded guilty to physically abusing his infant son in 2012 now faces murder charges after his son died from his injuries more than a decade later, police said.
Kyle Hinkle, 38, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, is charged in the death of his son, officials announced on Monday, Nov. 24, 2025.
On Oct. 12, 2012, the Bucks County Children and Youth contacted the Bensalem Township Police Special Victims Unit due to an injured baby boy at the former Aria Torresdale Hospital which is currently Jefferson Torresdale Hospital. Staff members at the hospital at the time reported a three-month-old baby boy who was bleeding in the brain and suffering from retinal hemorrhages, injuries that are consistent with abuse. A CAT scan also revealed the baby had suffered both new and old injuries that were in various stages of healing.
The baby – who was born in July 2012 and living at a home on Virginia Avenue in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, at the time — was transferred to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children for specialized evaluation and treatment.
Bensalem Police responded to St. Christopher’s Hospital where the baby was admitted to the ICU. A doctor determined the baby’s injuries were consistent with abusive head trauma.
Investigators interviewed the baby’s father, Kyle Hinkle, who admitted to shaking his son multiple times on the morning of Oct. 12, 2012, because he wasn’t able to get him to stop crying, officials said. Hinkle also shook the baby without supporting his head, according to police.
Hinkle was arrested and later pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of children and simple assault. He was sentenced to two years in county prison with an additional three years of supervised parole and probation.
On Aug. 12, 2024, Pennsylvania State Police notified Bensalem Township Police that Hinkle’s son had died in Oliver, Pennsylvania, at the age of 11. An autopsy in Westmoreland County determined the boy died from complications of the blunt force trauma to the head and neck that he suffered as a baby, investigators said.
The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office then approved additional charges against Hinkle. On Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, a judge issued a warrant charging Hinkle with third-degree murder. Bensalem Police traveled to Hinkle’s workplace in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and took him into custody with the help of Allentown Police.
Hinkle was arraigned and remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility in lieu of 10% of $2 million bail. Online court records don’t list an attorney who could speak on Hinkle’s behalf.
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